submitting a link to a discord bot and having it put it into a txt file

[peppergj]

so i'm currently making a discord bot which helps out with an album exchange which my friend group uses.
and so basically, i can't find anything that can help out with being able to submit spotify/album links to the bot, so it puts it into a txt file, then when i draw the submitted albums, it randomly auto-selects one.
can anyone help out or point me into the right direction?

[Enitoxy]

It really depends on how you want to implement this. When I say "it depends", it's all about the needs of your app. If you need a robust way to store data, then you have to go with a database implementation (e.g. MySQL), but if you just want to store plaintext data and then parse it (in your case, links/URLs), a .json file (or even a .txt file as you mentioned) will be enough.

My suggestion is, instead of using a text file (to avoid formatting and parsing problems) you should use a JSON file to store your links. You can then easily read the file when you want to randomly select a link. There are many examples, both in StackOverflow and the discord.py Discord server (and on the internet in general).

[peppergj]

thanks for your reply!
i was more wondering the kind of code i would need to learn/write to have the bot take link submissions.
do you know anything about this?

[Drakan1]

That's relatively easy. So you can do it as an argument from a standard function or use a wait_for

Something like:

class Music:
 def __init__(self, name, link, requested_by etc):
....


class MusicCommand (commands.cog):
...
@commands.command()
async def submission(self, ctx, link):
 # some form of check here
    self.links.append(Music(ctx.author.name, link etc)) # can test for whether the link is valid